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Stunning tunnels, it’s amazing what industrial architecture is left in this country. Such a shame that trains don’t run on these lines anymore. Fantastic video.

What an absolute delight. I love the masonry work that goes into these tunnels, there was some pride in the workmanship in those days.

Brilliant film. And Andrea is pretty cute. 😊

I never tire of seeing these amazing tunnels since I think of what the builders had to work with. Thank you for another excellent piece.

Paul and Rebecca, you have produced a very slick video this time. Superb intro great editing and music. Very interesting content, very enjoyable, Thank you. Regards Garry

Hi Paul, another great video for the subscribers who may be interested in geology as well as railway construction. When we visited the TynyGraig tunnel (with permission) some years ago the refuges shown in your video at 4.27 (with the brick arches) frame an anticlinal fold of sandstone layers that the tunnel builders exposed during construction. Thanks for another interesting production, Brian.

In the 1980s i was a student at lampeter and involved with the Gwili railway. As a consequence, i ended up walking the entire route from Carmarthen - aberystwyth plus the branches and tried tracing the route north from Strata Florida (the unbuilt bit). There were fewer gardens to climb through then, but still some.... All of the tunnels were accessible and I've managed to walk through them all. Nice to see how it's changed.

The Tunnels are amazing.The beautyful Landscapes is a real green Natureparadise.Wow💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟💟

Fascinating. Seriously. I stumbled upon your videos quite randomly and am now looking forward to more! Thanks.

That tunnel is a spectacular garden ornament.

Colin Burton Thank you all so much for a fascinating video, your hard work is really appreciated, loved it.

What a surprise! Not everyone who can boast a tunnel mouth in their back garden! Thanks for another interesting tour - some great footage, and impressive stills inside the tunnels.

Great video, Thanks for sharing it with us. Most people just have a shed at the end of their garden, how amazing to have a tunnel!

Fantastic tunnels, and a lovely madness of green! There are shades of green we don't see here in SE Arizona!

The tower illusion at 0:25. Cool video!

gosh , loved this video to pieces , well done again and thanks for time and efforts you put in , andrea too

Fascinating video! I walked all of these back in the 1980s, and still think the scenery around Pencader is some of the most stunning on any disused railway I've walked.

Well done for getting permission to explore these tunnels, most interesting - helps to have a local guide too! Excellent stuff P&R.

So polite, leaving a note and everything. I wish my yard had a tunnel.

Imagine having a garden railway and using part of the tunnel for your layout.

hey paul and rebbeca , great video , how cool is that , a tunnel at the end of the garden , well im caught up on all your videos now , :)

I grew up at the other end of the tunnel in Tynygriag - the end you emerged at. As soon as I was old enough to be out of my parents sight I spent all my spare time traipsing round the village and frequented the tunnel often- it felt like my own private world. To the left is a steep bank that I would scramble up and down and I had my own route to climb out at the other end without going through the garden. Last time I tried to take that route my little path was all but non existence. I have to say you did the tunnel wrong. It is best experienced without torches, hearing the sounds and feeling the cool dampness and the smells. Then, my favourite part, emerging at the end you did into a magical abandoned world. You say it looks like it has been done up recently but I can tell you that is had not been touched in all the time I've known it- so 35 years. And I doubt at any time in the near past to that as the undergrowth around it was well established.

I'm super jealous of the guy with a historic tunnel in his backyard

Absolutely beautiful, thanks for taking us along. I am new to the channel and abandoned Railways are some of my favorite places to explore so I'll be sticking around for a while😁 thank you for sharing this with us, and be safe out there my friends

It’s amazing how nature takes over in so few years

Wouldn’t surprise me if the monks had gone to Vegas (as they do in comedy TV shows and movies) but another great video, some lovely tunnels in this one 👍🏻 And love how the owner of the tunnel with the beach looking at it uses that tunnel to get a breeze

The latter half of my childhood was spent, extensively exploring the old raiway system of Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro - then under the wider Tri-county border of Dyfed). I found the old trackbeds ideal in traversing vast swathes of the Welsh countryside, from Newport (Trefdraeth - 'Town on the beach') (on the Cardiganshire border) to the mainline running to Haverfordwest and on to Fishguard (Abergwaun - 'Mouth of the river Gwaun'). In fact, one such line ran from Newport to Clunderwen (prounounced - Klin'derrwin) (on the mainline), right across the Preseli range. Numerous tunnels and extremely overgrown cuttings everywhere. . BTW - My school was - Ysgol-y-Preseli, (The Preseli School) Crymych, which was not far from this branch line to Newcastle Emlyn, explored in this video. . Love your work guys. . Regarding the Cymraeg word 'Cefn' (Back, or rear, or reverse), the pronounciation in Welsh (Cymraeg) is said with an almost silent 'f'... So more sounding like 'Kewn', than 'Kevin'. I used to live just south of the village of Maenclochog (where we later moved to...), at a tiny hamlet called 'Llanycefn' - Llan is Cymraeg for 'church'. And Maenclochog is - 'The village of the ringing stone' - the latter of which was actually just across the road from where we lived. I never heard the stone ring, but it did have a stunning well upwelling from beneath the large granite 'glacial erratic' boulder.

The best yet, keep them coming.

Excellent stuff! Some wonderful discoveries and, as usual, high quality presentation. Thank you!

Those old masons did great work. thanks for the tour!

Amazing video as always thanks for the gorgeous views

Great video thanks guy's loving your experiences keep up the great work

Hey guys, nice to see you again. This is an amazing place, really enjoyed it and you kept it really interesting. That tunnel is well hidden, but brilliant explore.

Always enjoy the relaxed and fun way you both do these videos. Maps please! Won't stop me but it saves time looking up these locations on an old AA map book.

Thanks for your tunnel videos really enjoyed this 1 looking forward to seeing more . Martin zero is right about how good you're channel is.thanks John Rooney

No idea why these are fascinating but they are. Abandoned railways and tunnels - what's not to like? Must be my inner anorak.

What a wonderful property! Wow!

That is one of the best outdoor air-conditioning units I have ever seen.

That was great thank you

That's one hell of a garden feature.

Hi Paul, this was a random find, as my main interest is railways, and disused infrastructure. What a great video, the music accompanying the scenes is fantastic, really setting the melancholic atmosphere of what we are seeing here. Happy tunnel hunting in the future.

That's a big leak in the viaduct at Pencader. Has it been reported? It would be a shame if the break in the wall went unfixed and the water caused it to collapse. The damage would be catastrophic. Welsh is tricky to pronounce. What can I say; we made it that way to make it hard on the English? LOL Just kidding. Your pronunciations were close and acceptable. The landscapes and architecture were amazing. Thanks for sharing. And I remembered to subscribe this time. I can't wait to see where you take us next.

Thank you so much for this video.

Oh my imagine owning a house with a tunnel in your garden 😮 thank you for another explore, these uploads are quality 🙂 I hope you visit Derbyshire at some point, Bennerley Viaduct was my last venture 😉

Great video Paul, it’s amazing that no matter how remote , you still get graffiti on a bare wall.

Love the history. Superb video. 4 tunnels - how exciting. Shame the culvert was inaccessible.

Another great vlog, keep up the good work.

That would be an amazing cycle route! 😍😁

New subscriber from Martins channel, if everywhere you go is as nice as this place I'll be watching more.

Awesome video, glad I came across your channel. If I was at the third tunnel I would have to do some climbing, if not over the gate to check out the tunnel definitely to the top to check out the aqueduct, that kind of thing absolutely fascinates me. Anyway, you've got a new subscriber here.

Cool video, the music was AWESOME!!

Awesome Video Great Finding Old Rail Lines

Best video so far - I bet Rebecca selects the music - really enjoy your challenge.

beautiful scenes full of mysteery. thanks again

Another great video!

Love seeing the tunnels, I noticed in the two videos you have extra helpers, I don't mean Rebecca or Andrea Freya and Abbie was it a family holiday and thought we'll take the kids somewhere and they can go inside tunnels with yourself and Rebecca

It's very interesting to see the tunnels and to see how much work and engineering it took to build them, it would be great to have some info on build dates and reason or possible reasons the line was discontinued and the approximate year they were closed

I live in the area and walked through Pencader tunnel south to north in 1998. In those days there were no walls or padlocked gates. However, English incomers started having parties in the tunnel and even abseiled down the ventilation towers by trespassing on local farmers' land and damaged the structure. The shafts have since been sealed off as have the entrances either end. Farmers who own the land nearby have keys but only give them to locals.

Great vid, newly subbed too, love the brickwork on the tunnel ends, it looks immaculate and clean! Love the fact you ask / seek permission, always best to check and be upfront, what's the worse someone can say? - No! Well done both!

Some beautiful tunnels and rock in this video. If you do go back there at some point, any chance you could pop the drone up to the aqueduct that seemed to be ?overflowing? at the tunnel mouth? Would be interesting to see what's going on up there.

Not sure how I found this, but must admit found it interesting. Looks well worth a subscribe.

great video .... really enjoyed it

Woah! Editing upped a gear there, loved the three section screen split!

Another great video you chaps thankyou - interesting as always. btw I believe the official name for the things you call 'recesses' are really 'refuges' Paul.

you should call your tunnel series TUNNEL VISION.lol

Andrea seems very nice.

Great video! Martin Zero may know some history on this, he's quite knowledgeable on disused , old railways, tunnels etc etc.

Imagine that a monk that didn't want to be contacted 🤣 did you find the velociraptor? 🐉😜🤠🚂🏰🚇

I wonder when they rock bolted the face of that tunnel? I just stumbled across this video and as the rest of your work, it's great!

wow having your own Tunnel

The Gwili Railway could extend north and work trains through Pencader tunnel.

IF YOU CAN in your tunnel expeditions PLEASE (If it is possible) Show a better picture of the Tunnel millage Signs (4.08 White oval sign in this Vid) They are indeed Just as Much a part of the tunnels & in mapping out where these tunnels are to Keen tunnel enthusiasts.... CHeers... Again Another Excellent Vid

Theres a house in huddersfield which has a tunnel portal in their back garden it was called the butternab tunnel always wanted the house lol Xx

Absolutely fascinating . I started walking old railways back in the late 60s and remember walking in stages from Aberystwyth to Strata Florida in summer 1970 when visiting my Grandparents who lived in Penparcau just outside Aberystwyth . I recall , apart from a couple of blown bridges ,the course being fairly walkable throughout then and distinctly remember Tyn y Graig tunnel with its open rock interior. I now live in Huntingdon , Cambs and there are several old lines round this way, especially in the St Ives area . Are any of those staitons ticked off on your list yet?

The river Teifi is pronounced Tavy, which is the same as the river flowing from Dartmoor through Tavistock to the Tamar and was only a few miles from the Princetown branch.

Great Vid.

good work

I visited Pencader Tunnel for the first time twenty years ago to this day, and was heartily traumatized by the experience (sunk up to my knees in soft mud at the entrance) - I've returned a few times since then and walked through it end-to-end - an amazing bit of engineering. You guys did a brilliant job photographing it and the other tunnels on the old Carmarthen & Cardigan and Manchester & Milford lines. There is actually a horizontal adit on the surface that is believed to have connected with the north-eastern ventilation shaft - I've seen the entrance to this with my own eyes but it's impossible to penetrate far inside due to it having collapsed. As a suggestion, have you considered visited the Manchester and Milford Railway's unfinished tunnel at Cefn Myherin? This was located on the aborted 15-mile section that would have carried the railway across the Cambrian Mountains to Llangurig, and would have been among the highest railway tunnels in the UK, in terms of altitude. Contractors begin digging the approach cuttings at both ends before the project was abandoned, and they can indeed be seen marked as 'Old Quarry' on the old OS maps held by the National Library of Scotland.

one to do: Kemp town railway in Brighton

Hi, I've been a subscriber for a little while now and really enjoy the channel so I've been delving into your older stuff. Some fantastic tunnels in this video, did you ever get the key from the monks and go back to film inside the long one?

Nice small tunnel at the end

Working my way through the Tunnels videos right after having watched all the EDS episodes, and I had an epiphany of some sort: I envied all the people living in old station houses (with platforms and trackbeds in their garden) or right next to a tunnel (such as shown in this video), but actually my parents have one of the coolest houses there could be (in my region) - not only is the house and garden alongside a former heavy rail track now used by light rail (the Cologne Stadtbahn), but it is actually the house built by the then head of the railway company that owned the railways going along there! I think that's just as cool as living next to a tunnel or in an old station house. :D

Just discovered your channel. I assume tunnels 1 to 4 were railway tunnels. The small "bonus" tunnel, is that an adit, for water egress or air intake, or is it an artifact of a furnace or something else. Do you know? What an adventure. Thank you.

I know some of these well👍

Sounds like you need one of those collapsible ladders for these escapades....

have you checked out the butternab tunnel on the huddersfield meltham line at one side been converted into a nice house

Nice intro and video . Wonder if the mill in the beginning was once served by the railway line ? Was this an line that mainly served passengers?

Did you know there was a secret room in deb dale park house( gorton house ) , that run down to the servants quarters from the bedroom . Love if you guys could get permission and explore this lovely old house

Brilliant videos, came across them by accident...now i'm hooked. Are my eyes playing tricks with me or is there a face carving in the rock at time stamp 12:39 - looks realy spooky, was there a ghost watching you ?

Generally speaking does anyone know who own the trackbed of all the old disused railway lines. And who is responsible for the old tunnels. Very interesting content from these 2 people. Well done.

I think I know why you could not get into that third ttunnel. U obviously would need to find a Monk key. There's not a lot of them in Wales. Lol. Sorry.... Excellent video. Cheers for that.

Would be nice if you can amend your video to include a map of the area where the 4 tunnels are and a rough sketch where the tracks ran.

Alt-y-Cefn tunnel had telegraph lines inside which suggests a nearby signal box any idea where that was?

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Good video

I'm glad even a Briton has trouble pronouncing Welsh words. Like so many foreign languages, some words look easy, others not so much.

Does Network Rail still own it or the gentleman with the breezy garden? Oh Mersea, why can't I have a tunnel?

Just found your videos. Sometimes the music covers the talking.

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